Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74e76daa61d7e0a5…

MALICIOUS

RTF

14.2 KB First seen: 2019-11-20
MD5: ddc09d54da6f11339c9aa96266926378 SHA-1: be512be6414d5db6acd07a8922bd3c3f7aa5c316 SHA-256: 74e76daa61d7e0a5419c2e04b3febbbd704e6f1c5b6d7c0cdc1c605503cd5b43
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that is automatically linked and updated, triggering an exploit for CVE-2017-11882. This exploit is known to deliver a secondary payload, which is likely malicious. The presence of the Ole10Native stream and the specific heuristic firing for CVE-2017-11882 strongly indicate this attack vector.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor Ole10Native payload — CVE-2017-11882 likely critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE
    RTF decodes to an activated Microsoft Equation 3.0 OLE storage whose payload is a high-entropy Ole10Native stream rather than normal Equation Native/MTEF data. This is a weaponized Equation Editor RCE delivery shape consistent with CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802.
  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINK
    RTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
  • \objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATE
    RTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000803.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x803 4153 bytes
SHA-256: 391103919b412b8c84ebe029c6f531d33b500573550abeb7c9c8bb2ac31f508e